This is my fruit bowl so far. Most of the fruit I made was created by using the spherical tool and then adding a texture to it. The bowl was made using a torus which i made very thin, then put a flat cylinder on the bottom, then gave them both a wood texture. I thought about making the bowl by somehow creating a sphere and editing it into the shape of a bowl, but when i tried this it worked better in theory than on paper. I found it much easier to make the bowl with 2 different objects but with the same texture.
With the orange, which was the first piece I made, I drew a sphere and then found a picture of an orange. I then put the image onto the ball, but as a texture. It looked pretty impressive by then, but I added a green top to it, where it would have been joined to the tree. This was an easy way of creating a fruit with little knowledge of the software by this point. The texture was also quite reflective like that of a real orange, and you can see where the light is shining off it.
After this I made the grapes, which took a lot longer. Basically, I began by making a sphere again, but much smaller this time. I then cloned it many times and started moving them around into positions which looked like the fruit would grow in. It took a while to make sure the grapes were touching but not going inside each other. I then used the cylinder tool to make the stalks/vines of the grapes and connect them up. This also took a while as the vines looked like they were connected in one view, but in other views it was clear that they were not. Finally I took a picture of a grape, and, using the image, applied it as a texture to each of the spheres. I also did this for the vines, with a zoomed in image of a vine, to get the correct colour.
Next I just selected and cloned the same bunch of grapes, and rotated them and moved them to a different position to make the fruit bowl a bit more full.
Then I started work on the apple. Initially I tried making it with the spherical tool again, but it was clear this would not work. A much more effective way of creating the apple is to use the torus tool, and then creating it quite fat and tall so it appears not to have a hole in the middle. This creates the groove in the top of apple, making it more apple shaped. I then made a sphere which went inside the torus, but was much smaller, just to make the groove in the top appear stop at a point, so it wasnt too deep. I then took a picture of an apple and stretched it to full size. Then imported it as a texture again and applied it to the torus and the sphere. I then added a stalk to the top to make it even more like a typical apple, and gave it the same texture as I gave the grape vines.
Next I will attempt a banana, which I am having a little difficulty with at the moment.
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